Discussion question #5

1.Tactical media as a contribution for new media art that present a challenge to "the existing semiotic regime by replicating and redeploying it". What is your opinion about Lovink and David Garcia together argue that tactical media are not mired in the position of the oppositional or the minoritarian?

2.The author states that data visualization as tactical media and the political-aesthetic work of data visualization. There is a distinction between functional or pragmatic visualization and artistic visualization. How does the gaps and perspective of artistic visualizations embedded in the data and in any act of calculation?